Maria von Hausswolff / Group XXXVIII, Apr 2014 - Sep 2014

GROUP 38

9/5/14 to 9/7/14

Mackey Apartments and Garages 1137 S. Cochran Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019

Copenhagen-based artist and trained cinematographer Maria von Hausswolff delved deep into the history and conventions of that classic representation of Los Angeles’s underbelly, film noir. After combing through archives and histories, von Hausswolff produced her own black-and-white film noir, shot on location at the MAK Center’s R.M. Schindler-designed Fitzpatrick-Leland House (1936). Posited as a distant memory from the house’s fictional past, the film references Hollywood clichés alongside glimpses into a world of secret scandals such as suicides, love affairs, murders and accidents. Scenes are frozen in silhouette, exposed through dramatic shadows as light moves around the building. The roving light accentuates the role architecture plays in constructing narrative and creates a dreamlike effect. The four-minute film was screened in the Mackey Garage Top.